I’m a little bit annoyed, but I’m just wondering if this is normal. The entire business (small confectionary business with 6 stores) is getting 8 days off for new years. However, us in the kitchen, who’ve been working 6 days/10-12 hour shifts for 3 weeks get one extra day off. The schedule isn’t made in advance, it’s a month at a time, and everyone gets their full salary despite falling short of contract obligations of days out of the year guaranteed hours. We don’t get any bonus for working through it, other than the last 3 weeks of overtime. They all work comfortable sitting down shifts for 8 hours, while we’ve been heavily understaffed due to management firing 5 employees with over a decade of wage increases just to hire 5 new foreigners from Vietnam to replace them for minimum wage. They were supposed to be here in November, but they couldn’t make the visa deadline so we all had to pick up the missing employees slack during the Christmas rush and work 10-12 hours. It’s also pretty intense labor when rushing around a kitchen making non stop cakes for 12 hours.
Anyways, thanks for reading. Is this normal, or even okay? Shouldn’t there be some sort of equality with rest days especially after a peak exhausting period?
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Normal does not mean you need to like it. If you feel management has done a bad job, expected you to fix their problem, and then gave you a negative reward: that is a true read of the situation.
Feeling a bit sho-ga-nai is also valid. Management vs labour is a tale as old as time.
What you should understand is management does not consider you part of their company. That is weird. Surely the people making the product are the essential aspect of any business. Sadly management does that, often.
Raise a complaint and phrase it as ‘oops, clearly someone made a mistake’. Nothing will happen but at least you complained.
Legally mandates holidays are only a couple of days. My partner only has 31st to 3rd off.
Diffèrent companies do new years differently, but 8 days is on the longer aide of things. Of course it depends on how your other holidays are handled